1. 4th Grade
Arizona’s Regions

2. What do you know about Arizona?
Prior Knowledge
What do you know about Arizona?
What do you know about Arizona Regions?

3. Fill in K (what you know) Fill in W (what you want to know)
K-W-L Chart
Fill in K (what you know)
Fill in W (what you want to know)

4. Arizona Vocabulary
Like our country, our state can be divided into regions. Arizona has three regions.

5. Part of a surface, space, or body
Regions
Part of a surface, space, or body

6. The plateau was pretty easy to walk on, but there were some tricky parts.

7. A land area with a flat surface raised
Plateau
A land area with a flat surface raised

8. There was a man who lived down the street that climbed a mountain and made it back down alive.

9. Raise of earth’s surface that is greater than a hill.
Mountain
Raise of earth’s surface that is greater than a hill.

10. Walking in the desert yesterday made me hot and thirsty.

11. Desert
A region with hardly any rain so there are not many plants, but lots of sand.

12. The mesa was flat but we had to be careful we didn’t fall off the sides.

13. A flat top fill or small plateau with steep sides
Mesa
A flat top fill or small plateau with steep sides

14. In the desert regions we have dunes which are usually formed by wind.

15. dune
Piles of sand

16. In the winter there are soft rains but in the summer there are monsoons.

17. Monsoon
Strong thunderstorms